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Article: 'Cool Guy' Big Brown readying for Preakness
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- Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
- Article date:
- May 11, 2008
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - Big Brown slowed ever so slightly as he
made his way to the track at Churchill Downs on Thursday morning.The
big bay colt turned his head to look behind him, only to see the
usual batch of trainers, exercise riders and barn workers quietly
muddling through the mist, caught up in their daily pre-dawn
routines.Big Brown waited for just a second, then followed good
friend Cody - his stable pony - out to the track for a jog. Only
then did it dawn on exercise rider Michelle Nevin what the big guy
was up to."He was looking for the cameras, he wanted to pose," Nevin
said.But the paparazzi that followed the horse's every move in the
days before his dominant 4 3/4-length ...